Month: May 2013

Random 10 5-31-13

Last week. This week:

  1. “The Book I Read” by Talking Heads, guessed by Occupant
    I’m tipping over backwards
  2. “Better” by Jonathan Coulton
    Snap your mandibles once to say you understand
  3. “Desperado” by the Eagles, guessed by Occupant
    Don’t your feet get cold in the winter time?
  4. “Silver Bell” by Patty Griffin
    I hear you’re digging a hole to hell
  5. “We End Up Together” by the New Pornographers
    Boom, there go the treetops
  6. “How You Like Me Now?” by the Heavy
    See, I been a bad bad bad bad man
  7. “California” by Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
    I hope they don’t fall into the sea
  8. “Que Sera Sera” by Pink Martini (orig. Doris Day), guessed by Occupant
    I asked my sweetheart what lies ahead
  9. “I Bet You Look Good on the Dance Floor” by Arctic Monkeys
    Dancing to electro-pop like a robot from 1984
  10. “Astronomy Domine” by Pink Floyd
    Flicker, flicker, flicker, blam

Good luck!

Thursday. (It is Thursday, right?)

So if you guessed I was going to spend the day watching the first season of Better Off Ted on Netflix, doing crossword puzzles, and reading the last of Kaleidotrope submissions (until January), then you would have guessed right.

I also made some changes to a couple of work documents and sent them around with an invite for a meeting next Tuesday. I figured that was better than waiting until next Monday to do it.

Oh, and I also went and bought my monthly train ticket.

And that was my Thursday.

Wednesday

It was a little weird yesterday, working from home, in between a three-day weekend and a five-day vacation. I can’t claim that I got a lot done — I spent most of the day researching instructors teaching a particular course — but it beat going into the office.

Today, I read a bunch of Kaleidotrope stories, getting the number of submissions still waiting on a reply down into the single digits. I should be able to get to the rest of them before the end of the week, if not tomorrow, which is good.

I’ll need to turn my attention, then, to editing stories for the next issue, in July, but at least I won’t have to contend with more submissions until January. That will help a little with my being full-up — everything I accept now goes into 2015 if not later — but also just with my sanity. The truth is, I don’t necessarily read every story front to back. I try to give each a fair shake, but if I can tell it’s not working for me, why would I assume it would be any better for a reader? (And why am I even doing this if these aren’t stories I want to read?) But even with the stories where you can tell right away it’s just not working, or isn’t what you’re looking for, that still leaves dozens if not hundreds of stories I need to give a closer look.

I topped off the evening by watching Rounders, which is well acted if a little dull.